in almost all libraries? granted, i wouldn't want a very young child checking out a book or graphic novel which contained explicit images of a sexual nature (or violent nature for that matter). BUT i sure do believe, if after being told to return the book, and refusing to do so, sharon cook and beth boisvert's asses SHOULD have been FIRED if i was a parent i'd want to make decisions about what my children did or didn't read. i wouldn't want a STRANGER to decide that. (recommend yes, decide NO) those librarians should never have censored The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume IV: The Black Dossier. it wasn't THEIR decision
Child protection or censorship?
Library employees lose jobs over book
NICHOLASVILLE — Sharon Cook is either a hero or a villain.
She is either due your thanks for doing everything in her power to protect children from obscenity or she is due your disdain for wantonly taking away the constitutional rights of the people of Jessamine County.
She never meant to do the latter. She absolutely meant to do the former.
It all started in the fall of 2008, and she is still doing it. The proof is in her knapsack, in a bright yellow flexible file folder, hidden from prying eyes. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume IV: The Black Dossier. It has pink and yellow highlighter tags sticking out, marking the pages that contain explicit sexual content.
It is the Jessamine County Public Library's copy, which she has checked out and not returned. She is being fined 10 cents a day for her breach of library contract — and for her moral stand.
She was, she says, simply appalled that a child could find a book that contained so many outright visually obscene graphics in the Jessamine library where she worked. So nine months ago, she challenged its right to be included in the collection, and when that failed, she simply checked it out herself..........
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The book in question is The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume IV: The Black Dossier.
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Wow.....absolutely she should be fired. She is outright refusing to follow the rules of her employer. If she had any REAL convictions about this, she would quit. Why would she WANT to work for an employer she so seriously disagrees with?
i would not work in a slaughterhouse. you're right of course (except about bergman)
It seems to me that the library in question is partly at fault, since it seems to have thrown all graphic novels into the same section, without recognizing that it's a hugely varied genre.
Maybe the solution is for both parties to recognize that not all graphic novels are "kid stuff" (or, in this case, even "teen stuff"), and to figure out a new system for categorizing and shelving them. And then have a policy in place where underage patrons who want to check out stuff with really adult themes can only have the stuff checked out by their parents.
On the other hand, my 11 year old self would have been outraged...
i didn't read comic books as a child and i usually don't read graphic novels as an adult. i recognize they are a powerful genre though.
i did go into the most wonderful 'comic book' store in northampton the last time i was there.
it changed my mind about those types of things. i was blown away
it was called modern myths: http://www.modern-myths.com/
No, I'm right about Bergman as well. You will come around. ;-)
or you just might
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